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Calling on the King in office hours is a portentous political thing in England. Last week nearly every member of the National Cabinet trooped through the gates of Buckingham Palace to talk to the heavy-eyed old man. First it was MacDonald and his Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; then Baldwin. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, also called. Later Scot MacDonald called again, then significantly turned his back on an emergency Cabinet meeting, went off to Scotland, leaving Baldwin to announce Britain's bellicose new air program (see col. 1). Finally Ramsay MacDonald was back again at the palace...
...reading. The Conservatives might not miss MacDonald's eyes but they would certainly miss his much-publicized heart. British dopesters were busy last week figuring that, if MacDonald resigned, he would take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...
...Last week Dr. Simon Flexner, 72, let it be known publicly that he is looking for an able pathologist to succeed him as director of the Rockefeller Institute's laboratories. Quickly recommended was Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, Nobel Prizeman, dean of the University of Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry. When Dr. Flexner will yield the general directorship of all the Rockefeller Institute's activities he did not indicate...
...indirectly one of the biggest contributors to the Bolivian cause in the Gran Chaco War. The Bolivian Government finances the war with a "patriotic" tax on exports; Bolivia's biggest export is tin produced by Patiño Mines & Enterprises Consolidated, Inc.; the hungriest consumer of Simon Patiño's tin is the U.S. and in the U.S. the second biggest buyer of the bluish-white metal is Mr. Cornish. Long allied with Senor Patiño, Mr. Cornish became vice president of Patiño Mines in 1924. Last week the corporate bond was made closer...
TIME: THE PRESENT-Tess Slesinger -Simon & Schuster...